[Digikam-users] segmentationfault from libexiv2

[Gilles Caulier]

2008/8/28 Caspar Maessen <cmaessen at casco.demon.nl>:
> I compile digikam and libexiv2 from svn once or twice a week.
> digikam-0.9.5_svn-853520
> digikam-libs-0.9.5_svn-853516
> libexiv2-4-0.17.91-1567.svn
>
> As you can see it is exiv2 version 0.17. This places de in /usr/lib
> /usr/lib/libexiv2.so -> libexiv2.so.4.0.1
> /usr/lib/libexiv2.so.4 -> libexiv2.so.4.0.1
> /usr/lib/libexiv2.so.4.0.1
>
> With this configuration digikam runs smoothly without a hitch.
>
> I also need ibexiv2.so.0. Among others it is required by qtpfsgui.
> So I install libexiv2-0.15-8.2 form the opensuse repos. It gives me
> /usr/lib/libexiv2.so.0 -> libexiv2.so.0.1.0
> /usr/lib/libexiv2.so.0.1.0
>
> But now digikam crashes with a reference to libexiv2.so.0. This is what
> puzzles me because I compiled digikam against the other version.
>
> This is what gdb gives me as I just point the mouse at an image:
>
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /opt/kde3/bin/digikam
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> [New Thread 0xb58b56d0 (LWP 6774)]
> Found dcraw version: 8.87
> [New Thread 0xb5281b90 (LWP 6794)]
> [New Thread 0xb4a80b90 (LWP 6795)]
> [Thread 0xb5281b90 (LWP 6794) exited]
> [Thread 0xb4a80b90 (LWP 6795) exited]
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> [Switching to Thread 0xb58b56d0 (LWP 6774)]
> 0xb28fd939 in Exiv2::TypeInfoTable::TypeInfoTable ()
> from /usr/lib/libexiv2.so.0
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0xb28fd939 in Exiv2::TypeInfoTable::TypeInfoTable ()
> from /usr/lib/libexiv2.so.0
> #1  0xb28fde9c in ?? () from /usr/lib/libexiv2.so.0
> #2  0xb29041a5 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libexiv2.so.0
> #3  0xb293aff4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libexiv2.so.0
> #4  0x0848c080 in ?? ()
> #5  0xbfdaa9d8 in ?? ()
> #6  0xb287c198 in _init () from /usr/lib/libexiv2.so.0
> Backtrace stopped: frame did not save the PC
> (gdb) quit
>
> After uninstalling libexiv2-0.15-8.2 everything works fine.
>
> Is this a bug in digikam?

No. but i recommend to try the current libkexiv2 interface from KDE3
branch where i have reduced all depencies to exiv2.

Best

Gilles Caulier